Detachable storm-collar for coats.



WITNESSES v H. F. GATES. DETACHABLE STORM COLLAR FOR COATS. APPucmom-mio NOV. 15. 1913.

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WEED Sll PATENT @Wmm HOMER F. GATES, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNO'R 0F ONEHALF' TO JOHN H. RICHA, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ID ETACHABLE STORM-COILAR FOR COATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

Application filed November 15, 1913. Serial No. 801,173.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HOMER F. GATES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certaln new and useful Improvements in Detachable Storm-Collars for Coats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in detachable storm collars for coats.

My invention further provides a coat having a detachable storm collar and prcvided with means for being releasably secured thereto.

The object of my invention is to provide a coat with a storm collar which may be used in stormy weather, and which may be detached from the coat in pleasant weather.

A further object of my invention is to provide a detachable storm collar which, when attached to a coat will conceal the ordinary coat collar and lapels, and which when so attached will present the appearance of a collar which has beenbuilt up with the body of the coat, and which may,

be turned up or folded down in the manner of the ordinary collar and lapels. V

A further object of my invention 1s to provide a storm collar which may be sold separately and attached to coats which are already in use. I

Other novel features of my invention are hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the preferred'embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a coat having attached thereto a storm collar of my invention, the latter being shown turned down and partly broken away. Flg. 2 is a side elevation of a coat provided with my improvement, the storm collar being shown turned up. Fig. 3-is an end view of the storm collar shown stretched out, a part of one side of the pocket being turned upwardly, to disclose the securing means on the inner side thereof. Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectionon the line (Yr-b of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical central sectional view, showing the storm collar and coat collar turned down.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

1 designates the body of an ordinary coat adapted to be worn by a man or woman; 2

designates the coat collar, and 3 the lapels of the coat.

4 designates an arcuate detachable storm collar,preferably of flexible material, such as woolen cloth, said cloth being worn so as to provide a pocket 5 which extends nearly the entire length of the storm collar and is adapted to receive therein the coat collar '2 and the lapels 3. In order that the storm collar may be reliably held in its proper position on the coat, it is, preferably, provided with means by which it may be releasably secured to the coat. Fo this purpose 1 preferably provide ordinary glove fastening devices 6 which as shownin Fig. 3, are secured to opposite inner sides of the storm collar, and which are adapted to releasably engage glove fastening devices 7 which are provided on the inner sides of the coat collar 2 and of the lapels 3, and on the inner side of the body of the coat below the top of the coat collar. By having the fastenings 7 located on the inner side of the body of the coat and in the inner sides of the coat collar and lapels, these fastenings will not be visible when the storm collar is removed and the coat collar and lapels are turned down to the position shown in Fig. 1.. Asfshown in Fig. 3 one" side of the storm collar is wider than the opposite side and extends below the pocket 5.

In applying the storm collar to the coat the collar 2 and lapels 3 are slipped into the pocket 5 with the wide side of the storm collar disposed toward the front of the coat and having'its securing devices 6 attached to' the securing devices 7 which are located on'the inner side of the body 1" of the coat, as shownin Fig. 4:. The narrow side of the collar is disposed at the rear of the coat .collar when the latter is turned up as in Fig. 4.,

and has its securing devices 6 secured to thecoat will present the appearance of being built up instead of being detachably connected to each other. When the storm col.

the coat.

I do not limit my invention to the structureshown and described, as, modifications,

within the scope of the appended claim,-

may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention. Having thus described my invention, Wha I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, j A coat having a collar and lapels, securing means invisible from the exterior on the -inner side of the coat and upon the inner side subscribing Witnesses.

of the collar and-'lapels, and a detachable storm collar provided, with a pocket adapted to receive the coat collar and lapels, oppo-- site inner sides of the pocket being provided with securing means invisible'from the exterior and respectively engaging said securing means which are on the inner side of the coat, collar and 'labels.

. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two Y HOMER F. GATES.

Witnesses! WARREN D. HOUSE. E. B. HoUsE; 

